ALLEN PRUNTY wrote in a message to Thom LaCosta:

-> I have a different outlook...special interest groups, such as this
-> one, can
-> make use of the Internet technology and Fidonet technology to create a
 AP> network
-> that doesn't depend on the whims of Fidonet and its mail movers.

 AP> I know that you are the moderator of Diabetes... and I would like
 AP> to try an experiment.

 AP> Can I create a listserver that will take the echo messages and send
 AP> them out as a mailing list and extend the echo to the net that way?
 AP> I think that this is one way we can help to save fidonet.  

Well, I could care less about saving Fidonet...but if we can promote use of
this echo, then that's fine.  I used to have an interface between the Drake
mailing list and a Fido echo....but the amount of spam that came in to the
Internet side forced me to make the list closed...and way that the fido
side was addressing the server wouldn't allow the general messages to be
posted.

Give it a shot...if the slime level from the Internet gets too much, then
we'll turn it off.

I'll have to see if I can understand enough about IREX to get it to act as
a gateway between a Fido echo and a closed internet mailing list.

cya,
thom
http://www.tlchost.net/echolist/ 
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